Do you know of a guide that walks you through the choosing of a licence?
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1Question reformulated to hopefully be more on topic. – James P. Jun 16 '16 at 0:16
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I do not think this is off topic. Even if this is about external resource, no single answer could reasonably provide a comprehensive answer. – Philippe Ombredanne Jun 16 '16 at 10:05
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@PhilippeOmbredanne do you mean it is not algorithmically possible to determine what licence a person should use with respect to their needs? – James P. Jun 29 '16 at 7:01
That would be GitHub's Choose a License tool.
This wizard will let you choose what you're most concerned about - be it giving maximum freedom to your users, preventing patent claims, or ensuring that downstream developers can't remove user freedoms (i.e. copyleft).
As of this writing, there's 7 main licenses which this tool will help you compare. There's also non-software options that it links to.
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It would be helpful if you could expand on the benefits of this tool, even if it's just a sentence or two. – Zizouz212 Jun 14 '16 at 23:33
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I found a few charts on a Programmers Stack Exchange post:
and this...
The GitHub and Creative Commons licence choosers have their downsides. The CC chooser looks at non-software licences. The GitHub licence chooser isn't necessarily interactive - and only included a bunch of pre-selected "featured" licences.
There is also this interactive licence chooser developed by OSS Watch, published by the University of Oxford.
There is only one serious free libre and open source license wizard picker to pick a license and this is the work of Dan Bentley and Brian Fitzpatrick :
answered Jun 15 '16 at 5:55
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3I am not sure the downvoters have any sense of humour.. sad. – Philippe Ombredanne Jun 16 '16 at 10:03
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